Closing summary

We’re going to close this live blog down now – at the end of another damaging day in the Commons for the prime minister. Here’s a summary of the latest events:

The prime minister suffered a humiliating defeat as 20 of her own MPs voted against the government over an amendment to the finance bill that will curb some of the government’s tax administration powers in the event of no deal. Their number included six former cabinet ministers and 11 former junior ministers.

May’s opponents said the defeat meant a no-deal Brexit was unworkable and that May should explicitly rule it out. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said the vote was an “important step to prevent a no deal Brexit”.

Three Labour MPs rebelled against their own party and sided with the government.

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The Lib Dems’ Brexit spokesman, Tom Brake, has a similar view to Lammy, insisting the prime minister must now rule out a no-deal Brexit:

The Conservative government’s defeat this evening shows Parliament’s rejection of a no-deal. This amendment goes some way to taking no deal off the table, but it is crucial it is removed as an option entirely.

Theresa May must stop gambling with our future. It is entirely within her power to take no deal off the table, however she is recklessly keeping it there as a scare tactic due to the lack of support for her deal.

The only real alternative to get us out of this mess is to legislate for a people’s vote, with the option to remain in the EU.

There were some rumours around earlier about an incident on the Parliamentary estate. The Metropolitan police have said the following:

At around 7.20pm on Tuesday, 8 January, a man was arrested on suspicion of trespassing on a protected site as he tried to gain entry to the Palace of Westminster via Carriage Gates. He has been taken to a police station. No officers were injured.

Labour’s David Lammy, who campaigns for the pro-remain Best for Britain group, says the prime minister’s Commons defeat means she must now rule out a no-deal Brexit.

No-deal would be catastrophic for the country and Theresa May’s fourth defeat in four weeks shows a majority in Parliament will do all it can to block it.

No-deal is now no option and the prime minister must rule it out. If the government is defeated again next week in the meaningful vote on her deal, the question of EU membership has to be handed back to the people. The government will have failed and the 2016 mandate will have expired.

The People’s Vote campaign has put out this statement about the result, from the Labour MP Ian Murray.

The threat of a no deal Brexit has cynically used by the government for many months as part of their campaign to bully and intimidate parliament into voting for a bad deal that would leave us worse off and offers less control.

Parliament has now asserted its authority and sovereignty and effectively exposed the threat of no deal as an empty one.

The real choice facing parliament and the country is now clear. We can leave the EU under the terms of some version of the prime minister’s bad deal or we can keep all our rights, powers, influence and op-outs in our current deal as full members of the EU.

Parliament remains gridlocked between these two choices, but, and as today has demonstrated, it can still act decisively. What it now must do is hand the decision back to the people.

After the vote Jesse Norman, a transport minister, rose on a point of order. Referring to Sir Vince Cable’s comment earlier about the possibility of part of the M3 being closed in the event of a no-deal Brexit (see 6.26pm), Norman said that Cable was wrong and that there were no plans to do this.

The Tory MP Marcus Jones also rises to make a point of order. He says his name has been wrongly included on a letter signed by MPs who say they would vote against a no-deal Brexit.

The result of the third vote in this group of amendments has been announced. It was on an amendment tabled by the Labour MP Chris Leslie, saying some powers in the finance bill should not be used without there being a vote in the Commons. It was defeated by 303 votes to 292 - a majority of 11.